AMICO Members: Archived AMICO Document

Application Guidelines for the Creation of
Dublin Core Metadata Records for AMICO Library Media Files (BLOBS).

In addition to contributing structured text records that document works of art, members of AMICO will be adding images, extended unstructured or marked-up texts, multimedia, sound and other associated documentation in the form of BLOBS [binary objects] to The AMICO Library. A metadata record will accompany each one of these files.

NOTE: A separate mapping will be made between the Dublin Core and the full AMICO data specification for describing works of art that are depicted or documented in the BLOBs described in this manner.

DC Element	DC SubElement	Definition and AMICO BLOB Application	Example
DC.Title		DC: The name given to the resource by the creator or publisher AMICO: Not used
DC.Creator		DC: The person or organization primarily responsible for creating the intellectual content of the resource
	DC.Creator. PersonalName	AMICO: The name of the creator of the image, multimedia file or associated document.	Alan Newman
	DC.Creator. CorporateName	AMICO: The name of the institution the creator of the image, multimedia file or associated doucment is afilliated with. If a personal name is not recorded above, institutional name must be present	Art Institute of Chicago
	DC.Creator.Role	AMICO: The role played in the creation of the image, multimedia file or associated document	scanner author
DC.Subject and Keywords		DC: The topic of the resource. Typically, subject will be expressed as keywords or phrases that describe the subject or content of the resource. The use of controlled vocabularies and formal classification schemas is encouraged AMICO: Not used
DC.Description		DC: A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document-like objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources AMICO: If desired, record the aspect of the work depicted [view], or an abstract or description of the content of a text, video or sound file	detail of lower left corner view of verso
DC.Publisher		DC: The entity responsible for making the resource available in its present form, such as a publishing house, a university department, or a corporate entity AMICO: The name of the institution that contributed the file to The AMICO Library	Art Institute of Chicago
DC.Other Contributor		DC: A person or organization not specified in a creator element who has made significant intellectual contributions to the resource but whose contribution is secondary to any person or organization specified in a Creator Element (for example, editor, transcriber, and illustrator).
	DC.Contributor. PersonalName	AMICO: The Name of any other individual that contributed to the creation of the thing documented	Julie Zeftel
	DC.Contributor. CorporateName	AMICO: The Name of any other corporate body that contributed to the creation of the thing documented, OR the corporate body with which the individual contributor is affiliated	Art Institute of Chicago
	DC.Contributor. Role	The role played in the creation of the thing.	image editor editor
DC.Date		DC: The date the resource was made available in its present form... AMICO: The date this document was created, this photograph scanned, this multimedia program released or this version of an associated document completed	1997/10/23
DC.Resource Type		DC: The category of the resource, such as home page, novel, poem, working paper, technical report, essay, dictionary. AMICO: The type of associated resource, drawn from the AAT	slide photograph digital image sound video article correspondence interview monograph exhibition catalogue instructional material commentary
DC.Format		DC: The data format of the resource, used to identify the software and possibly hardware that might be needed to display or operate the resource. ...
	DC.Format. Mode	AMICO: The mode of representation of the data in the associated file.	bit-mapped vector video sound text
	DC.Format. Encoding	AMICO: The scheme by which the associated file is encoded.	ASCII SGML GIF PICT PhotoCD PhotoShop EPS Beta VHS Super8
	DC.Format. Medium	AMICO: The medium on which the associated file is stored. Used only when medium is removable and stored separately?	film 1/2 inch video CD-ROM CD-R audio tape magnetic disk
	DC.Format. ColorPalette	AMICO: The color palette with which the associated image or information is rendered.	black and white 24 bit color 8 bit color
	DC.Format. ColorMetric	AMICO: The color metric within which the associated image or information is rendered	CMYK RGB ICE
	DC.Format. Dimensions	AMICO: The Size of the associated	4 x 5 inches 1024 x 768 pixels 16mm 16 pp
	DC.Format. FileSize	AMICO: The Size of the associated digital file	10KB 40MB
	DC.Format. Compression	AMICO: The method of compression used with this file format	JPEG MPEG LZW QuickTime
DC.Resource Identifier		DC: String or number used to uniquely identify the resource. Examples for networked resources include URLs and URNs (when implemented). Other globally-unique identifiers, such as International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) or other formal names would also be candidates for this element in the case of off-line resources AMICO: The identifier assigned to this document by the contributing institution, preceded by an institutional abbreviation to ensure uniqueness.	AIC #19872493
DC.Source		DC: A string or number used to uniquely identify the work from which this resource was derived, if applicable. AMICO: Not used: This information is recorded in Relation
DC.Language		DC: Language(s) of the intellectual content of the resource. Where practical, the content of this field should coincide with RFC 1766. See: http://ds.Internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.Txt AMICO: Not used for visual materials. For audio, or text, record the language	en de fr
DC.Relation		DC: The relationship of this resource to other resources. The intent of this element is to provide a means to express relationships among resources that have formal relationships to others, but exist as discrete resources themselves. For example, images in a document, chapters in a book, or items in a collection ... AMICO: Used to record relationships between originals and their digital surrogates, and between differing versions of digital surrogates
	DC.Relation.Type	AMICO: Record the formal relationship between this resource and any from which it was derived.	photographed from scanned from sampled from converted from
	DC.Relation. Identifier	AMICO: The Resource Identifier of original work
DC.Coverage		DC: The spatial and/or temporal characteristics of the resource. AMICO: Not used
DC. Rights		DC: A link to a copyright notice, to a rights-management statement, or to a service that would provide information about terms of access to the resource. AMICO: Record a copyright statement, or release for this version of the original	Copyright Art Institute of Chicago Copyright Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Rights granted for non-profit educational use only.

The examples below illustrate a group of four related metadata records. Only their content has been represented. As they are relatively simple, the question of how to group multiple repeating groups of sub-elements has been ignored.